ridcat : http://brevity.org/code/ridcat/ - visualizing texts with a cloud of icons ( to analyse a text (especially a therapy session) for emotion-laden words, and note the statistical deviation from the norm).

"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring." - Ludwig Wittgenstein"What if, instead of waiting for everything to be perfect, we start living our dreams this week, to any degree we can?" - The Universe"The source code is the ultimate documentation." - Anjo Anjewierden"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down." - Julia Cameron"Imagine time standing still. Just for a second. " - Via

"These symbols were found to have a life of their own that dictated how they should be manipulated. And the ways in which they were used enabled new facts about the world to be predicted." - J. Barrow"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." - Peter Ustinov"The capacity at the basis of both philosophy and jokes – to challenge one’s own treasured assumptions or to make distinctions which cut across time-honoured classifications, is a unique characteristic of our minds and lies at the heart of originality and creativity." - Peter Rickman"You can never come to the reality of creation by contemplating it from the point of view of destruction." - Rabindranath Tagore"Volo ut sis." = There is no higher wisdom than this. Do not look for it.

Uncommon Ground : Known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary (home to the golden-capped Dome of the Rock shrine and Al Aqsa mosque, and believed to be the site where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven), and to Jews as the Temple Mount (site of their biblical temples, where one of its outer walls — known as the Western Wall — is the holiest site in Judaism), has repeatedly been a flashpoint for violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

"We need the tonic of wildness." - Henry David Thoreau"The map is a help provided to the imagination through the eyes." - Henri Abraham Chatelain, Atlas historique (1705)"All education must be, in the end, self-education." - Robert Henri"This haphazard arrangement of forms may be the future of artistic harmony." - W. Kandinsky, 1911"An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universal Map Editor : http://www.blitzbasic.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?tool=76 is a special program made for game developers and level creators. It was designed for most 2D tilebased games (arcade, puzzle, logic, maze, race, shooter, strategy, jump&run or platform games are possible).

"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau"I have often wondered how a map, like a book, opens ways to other maps, as if, one map contains within itself all other maps, as if one map on its own seems insufficient and inadequate, and only the adjacency of other maps or at least the capacity to generate a desire to see other maps provides it a semblance of completeness." - Subhash Jaireth, <30>, Remembering Dehlie: A Chrono-topo-graphy of Imagination [printable version]"Cease Fire." - On a fire extinguisher in Calcutta, India Via"Those who follow are always behind." - A. Y. Jackson, landscape painter"Painting is not made to decorate apartments... it is an instrument of war, for attack and defense against the enemy." - Picasso

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." - Margaret Bonano"Becoming a student of your own processes and following your nose in the quietude of your workspace, can be the most effective route to private bliss and public success." - Robert Genn"Dah Wong Path." - A sign for a park path in Hong Kong."Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible; the simplest and most stable interpretations are favored." - Gestalt Principle Prägnanz"Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled." - COUNTRY WISDOM

"Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce!" - ?"There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.” - J. Michael Straczynski"Don't get into this." - A sign in Japan with the universal "do not enter" symbol."Accepting that outcomes are meaningless is not the end of effort and action, but really the opening for bold and daring action." - Jamie Broughton"If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized." - Lous St. Laurent

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell"... despite what our culture leads us to believe … we do not choose our vocations. We are called to them. There is a big difference.” - Jo McGowan, Writer"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-westerners never do." - Samuel P. Huntington Via"Religiousness of a scientist is in his enthusiastic worship for laws of harmony." - Albert Einstein"Everyone has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something." - Bobby Sands

"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1923-2007"A life in experimental development is an unimaginable and unpredictable experience." - R.B. Wild (after Sol Lewitt)"... a man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires." - John Eldredge, Author and speaker“People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.” - Banksy (Wall and Piece)"Possessing the audacity to do the mundane, while expecting miracles to come from it, explains every heroic and supernatural feat known to humankind." - The Universe

"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe." - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher (1795-1881)"A poem should not mean, but be." - Archibald MacLeish"Maybe when they said it wasn't possible, they meant it wasn't possible to make money off of it." - Childe Roland"Information is in the noise!" - Team SPAM!"I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything." - Alanis Morissette

Considerable research effort has been expended on formalising graphical notations so that they may play a more central role in the application of logic to problems; notations specifically designed for computer implementation either as computational models or interface languages. http://vivid.cs.dal.ca/VLL/ Examples include relational and existential graphs (C.S.Peirce), conceptual graphs (J.F. Sowa), various flavours of semantic networks, such as conceptual dependency graphs (R. Schank), graphical deduction systems, such as clause interconnectivity graphs (S. Sickel), Venn diagrams, Euler diagrams, constraint diagrams, and visual logic programming languages.

"Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back." - Robert Lee Frost (1874 – 1963)"Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny. " - Carl Schurz"It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. "- John Maynard Keynes Via"The loser is always at fault." - Vasily Panov"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." - Rudyard Kipling

1. go to HYPERLINK " http://www.google.com/" and click on "maps"2. click on "get directions" and type "New York" in the first box (the "from" box), and type "London" in the second box (the "to" box)3. scroll down to step #23... feel tired already? :-)

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and because it is beautiful." - Henri Poincaré "The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it." - Confucius"I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation." - Franz Cizek, 1865-1946"In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life." - Alan W. Watts Via"It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words." - David Crosby

(Definition) 'crash' : Loss of aircraft control resulting in an in-flight collision with terrain.

"Every important idea in science sounds strange at first." - Thomas Kuhn, Scientist Via"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast." - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance artist"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." - Edward B. Butler Via"One of the marks of having a gift is to have the courage to use it." - Katherine Anne Porter, US Novelist"Everybody's somewhere!" - Via

"It is our artists who choose freedom over safety, and use their talents to question and confront the culture." - Peter Block, Philosopher"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." - Malcolm CowleyIf Biblical headlines were written by today's media; On Red Sea crossing: "WETLANDS TRAMPLED IN LABOR STRIKE, Pursuing Environmentalists Killed"."I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." - George Burns"Only as high as I reach can I grow,Only as far as I seek can I go,Only as deep as I look can I see.Only as much as I dream can I be." - Karen Ravn

"The Good Lord never gives you more than you can handle, unless you die of something." - Guindon cartoon caption Via"'Chaos breeds life, where order breeds habit." - Henry Brooks, US Historian"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein"If at first you do succeed, try something harder." - Proverb quotes

Google Earth Hacks blog has a download, which overlays the map graphic (respliced with the 90° fix) atop the Australian landmass, so you can see 'Portuguese explorer Christopher de Mendonca led a small fleet into Botany Bay in 1522, more than 200 years ahead of Captain Cook, and ahead of Dutch explorers as well'. Via

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." - Confucius"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." - David Carradine Via"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin"The scary fact is that many of our dreams have come true." - Charles Eames Via

"If they say it can't be done, it doesn't always work out that way." - Yogi Berra"... the mental world is only maps of maps, ad infinitum." - Gregory Bateson, in "Form, Substance and Difference," from Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) Via"We're not too far from where we are."' - Friend ( studying a map and trying to concentrate on figuring out where we were). Via"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Charles R Swindoll"Anyone who thinks people lack originality should watch them folding roadmaps." - ?

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a lost map." - "Beetle Bailey" (comic strip)"The principle of reciprocity should guide the philanthropic exchange, just as it guides exchange in the market place. People who are constantly on the receiving end, who have never been given the opportunity to reciprocate, will in due time despise not only the gift, but also the gift giver." - Robert L. Woodson, Sr., The Triumph of the Josephs"It takes a very long time to become young." - Pablo Picasso"Accidents, coincidences, and serendipities don't create dreams; your dreams create them." - The Universe"Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map." - ?

"The map is a help provided to the imagination through the eyes." - Henri Abraham Chatelain, Atlas historique (1705)"If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them." - Anonymous"So much has already been written about everything, that you can’t find out anything about it." - James Thurber (1961)"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde Via"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." - Russian proverb

"It is not enough to aim, you must hit." - Italian proverb Via"The disorderly behavior of simple systems . . . generated complexity: richly organized patterns, sometimes stable and sometimes unstable, sometimes finite and sometimes infinite, but always with the fascination of living things. That was why scientists played with toys." - James Gleick"Those on top of the mountain did not fall there." - ?"When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud. If he didn't laugh, it wouldn't be the Tao." - Mitchell"... the secret to not wanting so much that your heart aches, your senses reel, and your mind boggles... is getting it." - TU